xthexder
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- Comment on Protons have mass 6 hours ago:
Catholics attend Mass (church)
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 15 hours ago:
Tbh, I kind of just thought people were uploading worse quality videos to Shorts, or people’s phones were doing some bullshit smoothing filter. I didn’t realize it until I watched a creator I know who wouldn’t upload such an uncanny video filter.
YouTube doing this without telling anyone is kinda crazy. There’s a few people who’ve been complaining their own shorts don’t even look like them
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 16 hours ago:
From what I’ve heard this mostly happens on YT Shorts, and the AI upscaling they’re doing is making people look like plastic and uncanny as hell.
I haven’t noticed on normal videos, since that’s pretty much all I watch. - Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
They both seem equally plausible. “NO PLATE” would be officers writing it in, and if they left it blank the computer would turn it into Null.
I bet “BLANK” could cause similar issues
- Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
Definitely, that thing’s supercharged, so more pressure = more heat = more knocking
- Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
They already consider similar looking letters as the same. If someone has the license plate “OOPS” , if you try and register “00P5” it will say it’s taken.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
It might depend on the state, but I think anything other than registration stickers in the designated spot could count as a defaced license plate
- Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
I thought you were going to say Photovoltaic cells (solar panels)
- Comment on Ideal car 1 day ago:
Are there even any states that allow an = ? I bet they drew that on with sharpie
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 2 days ago:
lol, what an insane idea…
A physical cable back to Earth is impossible, otherwise we’d already have space elevators.
Any other wireless transmission would have all the same weather problems and energy losses, it would be WAY cheaper to just build more solar panels on the ground. - Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 3 days ago:
I think you’re missing the point this article is trying to make… It’s not an advertisement for Flipper Zero, it’s a scare piece implyoing the devices’ existence is bad
- Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars 3 days ago:
Weren’t Kia Boys stealing cars with literally just a USB cable since it physically fit yo turn the ignition behind the key cylinder? That doesn’t require buying a special device, it was mostly crimes of convenience. I doubt the Flipper Zero will ever get that widespread.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 days ago:
That’s not ~600 Megawatts, it’s 587 Megawatt-hours.
Or in other terms that are maybe easier to understand: 5875 fully charged 100kWh Tesla batteries.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 days ago:
A Megawatt is a unit of power not energy. It means nothing without including the duration, like Megawatt-hours
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 3 days ago:
Still $10m… ffs. Nobody needs $1B
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
Just because they stopped selling it doesn’t mean it’s free
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 days ago:
The last version of MacOS I used was $130 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 days ago:
I think their point is there’s nothing stopping Lemmy mods from using the exact same type of AI summarization tools. It may not be built-in, but many instances have their own addons for improving moderation
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 4 days ago:
I’m guessing companies aren’t hiring fully remote new grads. And to be honest, I think that would be really tough as an employee, because it can be so hard to learn from coworkers while remote. Getting started on a new remote team is rough enough as it is
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 4 days ago:
2008 was a very difficult job market for sure. Even around 2017 when I graduated it was quite difficult from now. Entry level positions have evaporated in the last 6-7 years
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 4 days ago:
Honestly Seattle is a pretty good place for tech jobs, it’s just that the cost of living isn’t much better than California or other big tech hubs.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 days ago:
That makes sense then. When people talk about their ISP ping, they’re usually talking about how long it takes to get out of the ISP’s network. So that 5ms Cloudflare ping is likely pretty close to what people would consider your internet’s ping.
Speedtest.net is a really common tool for measuring this, since it will automatically check where the closest server is. For your connection, any ping above 5ms you can probably assume is based on your physical distance to the server, or latency on the server’s end. I’m guessing Google doesn’t have a server quite as close to you as Cloudflare
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 days ago:
You’re probably really far away from the VR Chat server. Try pinging Google or Cloudflare, which will tell you ping to the nearest datacenter (a rough estimate of ping caused by your local ISP).
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 5 days ago:
I have this pre-existing accessibility condition where I can’t read sites with ads on them. I’ve been blocking ads my whole life and have a visceral reaction to other people’s browsers if they don’t have an ad blocker.
I don’t see how they could possibly ban ad blockers but not screen readers or ther “focused” modes. If they do, I guess I’ll just pretend I’m blind
- Comment on Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses 6 days ago:
a few millionth of a billionth of a second
What even is that… we have units in multiples of 1000 for a reason. 1 femtosecond, or 1 millionth of a nanosecond.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 days ago:
I love catching bots in tarpits, it’s actually quite fun
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Many people do just have one set of rims and have a tire shop swap them out. In that case they wouldn’t have to charge the sensors, but you need to pay someone with a tire machine every time then. I have 2 full sets of wheels so that means I can change them out myself at home, which is particularly useful if there’s ever a surprise early snowstorm or I’ve been procrastinating swapping them.
Having proper snow tires with their soft rubber and special tread pattern definitely makes a huge difference in cold-weather traction. Even if the road is dry but below freezing, a winter tire will handle a bit better because a summer tire’s rubber is designed for higher temperatures and will go stiff in the cold. The tread pattern is designed to have snow pack in and stick to it, since snow sliding on snow is actually higher friction than rubber on snow. With the right tires you’ll bottom out your car in the snow before you get stuck from loss of traction. Pure ice is a bit of a different story. The only real solution for that is tires with metal studs in them, but they’re illegal to use on the public roads in the city because they tear up the asphalt.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If you buy a new set of wheels, the pressure sensors for the valve stems also cost extra, and I think have to be paired with the car using a scan tool, depending on the manufacturer. So if you’ve got separate winter and summer tires, the sensors have to get updated each time you change. (Maybe some manufacturers have figured out how to auto-pair based on proximity? but idk
- Comment on Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem 1 week ago:
Ah, I didn’t realize the original Doom had multiplayer. It’s a little hard to search for since now all that shows up is online multiplayer mods for it / source ports that came after
- Comment on 1 week ago:
For the tire pressure thing, that’s because VW doesn’t actually use sensors in the wheels. They calculate wheel circumference as you’re driving and warn you if it changes, meaning you have a flat. On the one hand, you don’t have to worry about sensors if you have winter tires, but on the other… having it show PSI would be nice.